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The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei. Located in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace, it serves as the main entrance to the museum. Completed in 1989, it has become a landmark of the city of Paris.
The Louvre museum is more like a town than museum. It is not possible to see the whole museum in one day, I think you will have to stay for a week to be able to aborb the most of it. It is a great place to visit when in Paris!
About Louvre:
The Louvre Museum, located in Paris, is the world's most visited art museum, a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (neighbourhood). Nearly 35,000 objects from the 6th millennium BCE to the 19th century CE are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres.
The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible.
The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being confiscated church and royal property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The size of the collection increased under Napoleon when the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon. After his defeat at Waterloo, many works seized by Napoleon's armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic, except during the two World Wars.
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Paris, November 2008
The Louvre
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This shot shows the most famous part of the famous Louvre museum. It has the largest art collection in the world and the place is immense. It seems to cover miles of downtown Paris. They say you should plan to stay at least a week to see even a portion of the collection.
The Louvre is an amazing, breathtaking, and, if you’re not careful, exhausting museum. I recommend hitting the highlights or periods that most interest you. Don't try to see everything because it's just not possible. The Louvre is a definite must-see while visiting Paris, unless you absolutely hate famous art and sculpture.
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The pyramid used as an entrance in the Louvre's courtyard has the exact same proportions as the Great Pyramid of Giza. The choice of this figure also serves as a reminder of the importance of the Egyptian antiquities collection inside the museum, as does the Obelisk in Place de la Concorde not far from there, the other side of the Jardin des Tuileries. At its base, the pyramid measures 116 feet wide and 70 feet high. 95 tons of steel and 105 tons of aluminum support the structure
Stunning architecture of one of the most beautiful places in the world - the Louvre in Paris, France.
Louvre Museum is the world's largest museum and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement. This is one of the hallways in the museum.
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Its always a pleasure photographing the beautiful Louvre and its myriad geometry.
I would have liked a blue hour shot, but I was shooting elsewhere and cold only capture this after dark.
Its a 3-image HDR of the Louvre and its striking geometry.
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Walking through the older buildings of the Louvre heading toward the famous 1980s I M Pei designed glass pyramid entrance.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated in 2017. The result of an unprecedented partnership between France and the United Arab Emirates, it is France’s largest cultural project abroad. There are three cornerstones to its success: its spectacular architecture, the richness of its permanent collection (thanks to loans from the Louvre and other French museums), and the quality of its temporary exhibitions.
Born out of an intergovernmental agreement signed between France and the United Arab Emirates on 6 March 2007, the Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first universal museum in the Arab world. It brings the Louvre name to Abu Dhabi and presents both ancient and contemporary works of historic, cultural and sociological interest from around the world.
Jean Nouvel, the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner was selected to design the museum. During the initial Concept Design phase in 2006-2007, Jean Nouvel and his team designed the museum as a "seemingly floating dome structure"; its web-patterned dome allowing the sun to filter through. The overall effect is meant to represent "rays of sunlight passing through date palm fronds in an oasis."
The museum’s permanent collection comprises some 700 artworks and groups of artworks from every period and civilisation (from prehistoric times to the present day). Another 300 works are loans from partner museums.